Matt Smith and Austin Butler in ‘Caught Stealing’ (photo: Sony Pictures)

Just a few years after Austin Butler became a household name in Baz Luhrmann’s meh “Elvis,” he’s finally been given a lead role in a movie worthy of his gifts. Darren Aronofsky’s “Caught Stealing” (Sony/Columbia), with its double-meaning title (baseball and theft), flashbacks, ultra-violence, and tangled twists, appears to be the one.

Imagine an Aronofsky version of a Coen Brothers movie, with a screenplay by Charlie Huston (who utilizes they/them pronouns and adapted the script from their novel), a cast full of surprises (stick around for the end credits to say hi to an uncredited Laura Dern), Hasidic hitmen, and lots of Butler flesh, and there you have “Caught Stealing.” The promising baseball career of Henry (But

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